Hand craft is still spread in Adlešiči and its surroundings. 'Pisanice' (Easter eggs) and home-made linen are especially well-known. There is also a museum of hand crafts by family Cvitkovič.
HOW TO MAKE LINEN?
Villagers sowed the linseed in March
or April. In August or September they reaped it and removed seed from other
parts of the plant. This was put into wet grass in dewy places or into
the Kolpa. After two or three weeks stalks and threads came off.
Then there was a special procedure
called 'tučnja' with a tool called 'tukača'. Then there were two more procedures,
'trenje' and 'mikanje'. All these enabled the threads needed for
further processing to come off other parts of the plant .
(photo:
Marta Kasunič)
That is happening with the tools for
making linen.
Then they spinned - they made skeins from threads. They put the skeins twice or three times in the water with ashes to become whiter.
kolovrat
(photo:
Marta Kasunič)
The skeins were rolled up to a 'vitlen' to make balls. Then there was 'snovanje' which enabled thread to be put on the loom, called 'krosna'. Weaving was the last procedure. It was weaved. They made linen more beautiful with embroidery in red and blue.
model
of the loom (photo: Marta Kasunič)
Clothes, sheets, towels, school bags and other things which were needed in everyday's life. Nowadays tablecloths and serviettes are embroidered especially for tourists as a memory of their visit in Adlešiči.
(photo:
Marta Kasunič)
EASTER EGGS or
'PISANICE'
'Pisanice' are
egg shells. They are coloured in white and red on the black surface.
(photo:
Marta Kasunič)
At first they
remove white of the egg and yolk. After that they need a special tool (pisae)
in which is a bee wax. Using 'pisač' they draw or write on parts which
should be white at the end. Then the eggs are put in red water . It is
necessary to wait for some time so that the colour 'clings' to the egg.
Then they draw parts which should be red. At the end eggs are boiled in
a special black colour, wiped and oiled with bacon so that they become
shiny.
Drawings on Easter
eggs are mostly geometrical (triangles) or from the nature (branches).
There could also be written a wish at different celebrations.